The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
What's interesting is when you talk about that - "living forever" or as long as you possibly can - what you really… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted — Thomas Cranmer Copy Share Image
My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
